Stress

Student Stress Scale

This chapter offers a variety of stress assessment tools to assist you in assessing stress from several different perspectives. The Student Stress Scale focuses on events that may occur in the life of a student to offer you a different perspective for evaluating stress. The Student Stress Scale is an adaptation for college students of the Life Events Scale developed originally by Holmes and Rahe. This popular stress assessment measured the amount of change, using Life Change Units, a person was required to adapt to in the previous year. It was designed to predict the likelihood of disease and illness following exposure to stressful life events. Each life event is given a score that indicates the amount of readjustment a person has to make as a result of change. Some studies have found that people with serious illnesses tend to have higher scores on similar assessments.

For each event that occurred in your life within the past year, record the corresponding score. If an event occurred more than once, multiply the score for that event by the number of times the event occurred and record that score. Total all the scores.

|Life Event |Mean Value |

|1. Death of a close family member |100 |

|2. Death of a close friend |73 |

|3. Divorce of parents |65 |

|4. Jail term |63 |

|5. Major personal injury or illness |63 |

|6. Marriage |58 |

|7. Getting fired from a job |50...